Title Information
Title
Richard 'Dick' Nurse oral history interview
Name: Personal (Local)
Name Part
Bailey, Bernicestine McLeod
Role
Role Term: Text (marcrelator)
interviewer
Name: Personal (Local)
Name Part
Bailey, Harold
Role
Role Term: Text (marcrelator)
interviewer
Name: Personal (Local)
Name Part
Nurse, Richard
Role
Role Term: Text (marcrelator)
interviewee
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videos
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oral histories (literary works)
Abstract: general (displayLabel="Scope and Contents note")
The oral history interview with Richard 'Dick' Nurse on April 29, 2021 conducted by Bernicestine McLeod Bailey and Harold Bailey, Jr. In this interview, Nurse discusses his upbringing, his education at Stockbridge School in Interlaken, Massachusetts, his military service during the Korean War in the Intelligence Corps, his career as an admissions officer at Brown University and other scholastic institutions, as well as his conversion to Quakerism. He speaks about the few other Black students in his class at Brown and Pembroke and the pressure they felt to do well, the camaraderie he found in historically Black fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha, the Cammarian Club, and the editorial team at the Brown Daily Herald student newspaper, and the creative outlet he found in theater. He reflects on the lengths he went to recruit Black students to Brown during his time as an admissions officer, including covering application costs to encourage students to submit their paperwork and coordinating with school counselors to increase the applicant pool. Nurse also goes into detail regarding the environment at Brown during the 1968 Student Walkout and protests carried out by cheerleaders who knelt during the national anthem, as well as the letters he wrote in support of their efforts. Later he worked as the Headmaster of Stockbridge School for 3 years before serving as the University Administrator for the Educational Opportunity Fund at Rutgers University where he continued recruiting students of color and providing scholarships. Lastly, he served on the board of the Crossroads Theatre Company where he handled finances and later connected with Quaker filmmakers leading to his conversion in the early 2000s. Throughout this interview, he highlights the histories of other Black students and administrators at Brown University and Pembroke College in the 1960s-1970s while reflecting on the social conditions surrounding them.
Note: acquisition (displayLabel="Immediate form of acquisition")
UA.2025.002
Note: preferredcitation
Richard 'Dick' Nurse oral history interview , Brown University Library
Origin Information
Date Created
2021 April 29
Date Created: Start (encoding="w3cdtf", keyDate="yes")
2021
Date Created: End (encoding="w3cdtf")
2021
Language
Language Term: Code (iso639)
eng
Language Term: Text
English
Physical Description
Extent
1 mp4
Extent
01:58:04:00
digitalOrigin
born digital
Access Condition: rights statement (href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en")
In Copyright
Access Condition: restriction on access
Collection is open for research.
Subject
Name: Personal (Local)
Name Part
Allen, Irving
Subject
Name: Personal (Local)
Name Part
Brown, Alberta
Subject
Name: Personal (Local)
Name Part
Doebler, Charles
Subject
Name: Personal (naf) (valueURI="https://lccn.loc.gov/n78000047", authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names.html")
Name Part
Edelin, Kenneth, 1939-2013
Subject
Name: Personal (Local)
Name Part
Foster, Larry
Subject
Name: Personal (Local)
Name Part
Heffner, Ray Lorenzo
Subject
Name: Personal (naf) (valueURI="https://lccn.loc.gov/n87121889", authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names.html")
Name Part
Maeder, P. F. (Paul Fritz)
Subject
Name: Personal (Local)
Name Part
Moseby, Tina
Subject
Name: Personal (Local)
Name Part
Nash, Grace
Subject
Name: Personal (naf) (valueURI="https://lccn.loc.gov/n87809562", authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names.html")
Name Part
Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987
Subject
Name: Personal (naf) (valueURI="https://lccn.loc.gov/no00063202", authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names.html")
Name Part
Stoltz, Merton P. (Merton Philip), 1913-1989
Subject
Name: Personal (naf) (valueURI="https://lccn.loc.gov/n79148296", authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names.html")
Name Part
X, Malcolm, 1925-1965
Subject
Name: Personal (Local)
Name Part
Zucchoni, Dave
Subject
Name: Corporate (naf) (valueURI="https://lccn.loc.gov/no92001108", authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names.html")
Name Part
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity
Subject
Name: Corporate (naf) (valueURI="https://lccn.loc.gov/n79056113", authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names.html")
Name Part
Brown University
Subject
Name: Corporate (naf) (valueURI="https://lccn.loc.gov/no00101836", authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names.html")
Name Part
Brown University. Alumni Association
Subject
Name: Corporate (naf) (valueURI="https://lccn.loc.gov/no2005106656", authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names.html")
Name Part
Brown University. Third World Center
Subject
Name: Corporate (naf) (valueURI="https://lccn.loc.gov/no00088378", authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names.html")
Name Part
Congdon Street Baptist Church (Providence, R.I.)
Subject
Name: Corporate (naf) (valueURI="https://lccn.loc.gov/no2005098290", authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names.html")
Name Part
Crossroads Theatre Company (New Brunswick, N.J.)
Subject
Name: Corporate (naf) (valueURI="https://lccn.loc.gov/n79063815", authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names.html")
Name Part
National Urban League
Subject
Name: Corporate (naf) (valueURI="https://lccn.loc.gov/nr97039685", authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names.html")
Name Part
Pembroke College (Brown University)
Subject
Name: Corporate (naf) (valueURI="https://lccn.loc.gov/n79060586", authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names.html")
Name Part
Rutgers University
Subject
Name: Corporate (naf) (valueURI="https://lccn.loc.gov/n86122900", authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names.html")
Name Part
Stockbridge School (Interlaken, Mass.)
Subject (Local)
Topic
1968 Student Walkout
Subject (fast) (valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/799108", authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast")
Topic
African American college students -- Recruiting
Subject (LCSH) (valueURI="https://lccn.loc.gov/sh85001935", authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects.html")
Topic
African Americans Civil rights
Subject (Local)
Topic
Afro-Studies
Subject (Local)
Topic
Brown Daily Herald
Subject (Local)
Topic
Car Scholarship
Subject (Local)
Topic
Educational Opportunity Fund
Subject (Local)
Topic
Faunce House
Subject (LCSH) (valueURI="https://lccn.loc.gov/sh2009128103", authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects.html")
Topic
Korean War, 1950-1953 Participation, American
Subject (fast) (valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1023334", authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast")
Topic
Minority college students -- Recruiting
Subject (LCSH) (valueURI="https://lccn.loc.gov/sh2007004674", authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects.html")
Topic
Protest movements -- United States
Subject (LCSH) (valueURI="https://lccn.loc.gov/sh85109435", authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects.html")
Topic
Quakers
Subject (LCSH) (valueURI="https://lccn.loc.gov/sh85110237", authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects.html")
Topic
Race discrimination
Subject (LCSH) (valueURI="https://lccn.loc.gov/sh2020006610", authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects.html")
Topic
Racial justice
Subject (fast) (valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1976117", authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast")
Topic
Sock and Buskin (Brown University)
Subject (fast) (valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1136098", authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast")
Topic
Students -- Political activity
Subject (Local)
Topic
Transition Summer Program
Subject (LCSH) (valueURI="https://lccn.loc.gov/n89660152", authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects.html")
Geographic
Interlaken (Mass.)
Subject (LCSH) (valueURI="https://lccn.loc.gov/n80046086", authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects.html")
Geographic
New Jersey
Subject (LCSH) (valueURI="https://lccn.loc.gov/n79043372", authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects.html")
Geographic
Providence (R.I.)
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Location
Physical Location
Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)
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bdr:r48yfgnv
Note (displayLabel="Digital object made available by")
Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)